DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit , which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. Changing Extremes. Changing Extremes.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

The key findings on climate change have claimed it to be the biggest peril to the present generation and the future generations with the last three decades being successively warmer at the Earth’s surface (IPCC “climate change 2014”). 2. The Challenge of Climate Change. 3. Application of Ethics.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

These industry-funded propaganda and polarization tactics have had a corrosive impact on democracies worldwide, resulting in a dangerously ineffective response to climate change. We are also unveiling investigations into a volatile oil deal in Somalia pursued by two U.S. and the world.

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Grist

MAY 24, 2023

And since peaking in size in 2006, the hole in the ozone layer has continued to decrease. Study authors noted that how long the Montreal Protocol can help postpone the first ice-free Arctic summer depends on how much greenhouse gas emissions, largely produced from fossil fuels, are released in the future.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 9, 2019

We ignored these warnings and we keep pumping climate change causing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at record breaking rates. Everyone from Stephen Hawkings to President Obama have warned us of the urgent need to act on climate change. In the last couple of decades scientists have added to these warnings.

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Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2023

percent of scientists would come to agree that burning fossil fuels had disrupted the Earth’s climate. Yet almost 30 years after that warning, during the hottest year on Earth in 125,000 years , people are still arguing that the science is unreliable, or that the threat is real but we shouldn’t do anything about climate change.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Offshore wind energy powerhouse Orsted demonstrates that a pivot away from fossil fuels is possible. The first, biggest step to slowing climate change is switching electricity generation from coal and gas to wind and sun. A carbon tax followed the next year, helping wind become cost-competitive with fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a systemic conflict of interest at a time when the international financial sector is under increasing pressure to stop funding fossil fuels. DeSmog’s analysis found 65 percent of directors from 39 banks had 940 past or current connections to industries that could be considered climate-conflicted.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

Sempra LNG has been trying to build the project in Cameron Parish since 2006 , when the company planned to store gas in the caverns from its liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing later created a surplus in U.S. natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. That impact carries over directly into the climate change context,” he concluded. Landmark Climate Change Lawsuit.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2021

College students fighting to get their schools to stop investing in fossil fuels have stumbled on a new idea that could bring fresh attention to their cause: Those investments might be illegal. They also write that Harvard’s fossil fuel investments threaten its own physical property by exacerbating flooding and sea-level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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Clean Energy Canada

JANUARY 29, 2020

If you’ve been alive over the last decade, it won’t come as a surprise that climate change also cracks the list. In fact, the new 2020 report is dominated by climate concerns, neatly summarized by this quote: “This is the first time one category has occupied all of the top slots since the report was launched in 2006.”.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The research at Ohio University could help transform old fossil fuel sites into clean energy assets, though much work remains to be done. Ohio geothermal well installations peaked at 214 in 2006, when coal and natural gas prices were high. Logs for vertical heating and cooling wells exist for more than 1,800 sites in the state.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The government’s advisory Climate Change Committee has recommended no “net increase” in airport expansion should be allowed unless the industry “sufficiently outperforms” its current emissions projections. ESG factors – including climate change?- carbon budget if left unchecked. its more than 4,300?signatories’?portfolios”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

Ørsted has become the first energy company to top the Corporate Knights' Global 100 rankings of the world's most sustainable businesses, a decade after the Danish power firm began its pivot from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Ørsted's rise up the rankings has been rapid: it placed 70th in 2018 and fourth in 2019.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

This report shows that whilst many aspects of our lives have been disrupted in 2020, climate change has continued unabated," said Professor Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General at the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which contributed analysis of CO2 concentrations to the study. ppm and 410.04 ppm respectively, up from 411.74

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, that inaction or delayed action on climate will create immense risks and costs,and populations across the world demand leaders to respond - and to respond now. In short, climate is a space where national and global interests align. Climate change does not recognise borders. degrees limit within two decades.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. including: Pollen from changing growing seasons.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It has called for new oil and gas projects to be accelerated, labelled the windfall tax on energy companies a “terrible idea”, and argued for a more generous fiscal environment for the UK’s fossil fuel producers. They provide further evidence that Number 10’s fossil fuel agenda is far from accidental.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Italy’s first climate change lawsuit brought by Greenpeace Italy and climate advocacy group ReCommon against Italian oil giant Eni opened with its first hearing on February 16, alleging the company contributed to global warming. climate denial theories into Italy. climate change exists and is also due to humans 2.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This research helped establish that burning fossil fuels has been the main driver of climate change, and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) included the hockey stick graph in its 2001 assessment report on climate science.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

After all that, the Conservative MP was primed to unveil his 340-page report with a big PR push at a launch event on Monday, harbouring hopes it could once again catapult climate change to the top of the Westminster agenda. Fossil fuel dilemmas. Securing Rishi Sunak's support. I couldn't agree more.".

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Reaching Net Zero operations by 2050 will require huge changes in industrial practices – such as how we use energy and source raw materials – but despite all the challenges, the target is achievable writes Rob Jenkinson. Climate change is no longer a theoretical concept: it poses an existential threat to us all.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

In the fight against climate change, the $300-billion U.S. logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” As our civilization begins the slow process of jettisoning fossil energy, logging interests assure us that wood products are not a retrogression but a way forward.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. Beginning in 2006, the Pork Checkoff paid NPPC each year for the license to this slogan — even though the slogan was retired in 2011.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience. The Climate Impact of Meat.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

The meat industry is increasingly viewed as a sector where greenhouse gas emissions cuts can and should be made, just like the fossil fuel industry Livestock accounts for a third of total global emissions of methane, a potent gas that traps heat about 80 times more effectively than carbon dioxide but breaks up more quickly in the atmosphere.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tiny glass beads might seem an unlikely hero in the fight against climate change, but they may end up playing an outsize role in tackling one of the natural world’s most dire predicaments.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Climate change is affecting every region on earth. That was the very clear message, the wake-up call, from the IPCC in their report on the latest climate science. Which shows the impact of climate change is already having on this region and is compounding the effects of Covid-19, which has hit this area so hard.

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Grist

OCTOBER 7, 2020

If you watched BBC blockbusters like Planet Earth (2006) or Blue Planet (2001), you would have been excused for thinking that nature was doing better than ever. According to Attenborough, we need to rewild the oceans, divest from fossil fuels, convert our energy sources to renewables, go vegetarian, and change how we grow our food.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For instance, a 2020 report by Carrots and Sticks gives three interesting insights: The total number of voluntary and mandatory provisions in different countries has increased significantly since 2006. Europe has the largest number of reporting provisions, with 245. Over 95% of the S&P 500 report ESG results, metrics and accomplishments.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

ISO 14040:2006 – Environmental Management – Life Cycle Assessment – Principles and Framework : Describes the principles and framework for conducting a life cycle assessment (LCA), which includes defining the goal and scope of the LCA, LCA inventory analysis, reporting, and critical review.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

But very few companies are speaking up forcefully and repeatedly, in a way that could actually counter the roar of opposition coming from the fossil fuel sector - and from big cross-sector trade associations (including the US Chamber of Commerce ). We need large climate-friendly companies to join them with much more intensive advocacy.)

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

The well sat unused in 2006 and 2007 — “shut in due to Hurricane Rita,” records show — then was used to inject less than 5,000 barrels of wastewater shortly before the sale to Black Elk in 2009. If those funds are misspent, they warn, they could even wind up promoting more fossil fuel production and undermining climate goals.

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